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«On 17 January 1938, shortly before a planned visit to New York City, the artist and Soviet propagandist Gustav Klutsis was arrested in Moscow and, six weeks later, killed on Stalin’s order.
Some thanks, you want to say.  

After all, Klutsis, in collaboration with his wife, Valentina Kulagina, made on-command eye candy out of some of the regime’s dreariest and most long-winded slogans, like ‘Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country’.

The obvious and easy questions to ask here are those which raise the inevitability of Klutsis’s death: ‘Do politics and art mix?’, whatever mixing might mean, or ‘Is an artist working for the government already dead?’ We’ve got it all wrong.

Obvious and easy questions aren’t going to get us anywhere.  ‘How can politics and art not mix?’ is better, but still, this sets up two camps: politics, over there, far away, and resolutely not an artform; and art, something more proletarian, perhaps, and resolutely not a legitimate form of political discourse.  It’s one or the other (...).»

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Navalorama est une agence bruxelloise de communication, spécialisée en communication graphique.
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Navalorama is a Brussels based communication agency, specialised in graphic communication.
Navalorama offers a dynamic range of support for the creation of an integrated & nished product, from conception to conclusive completion.

(na-va-lo-ra-ma) s. m.
Engin de perspective qui représente une vue de mer. Afin de subvenir à l'imperfection de ses procédés spéciaux, il recourt à des engins de perspective, à des lumières projetées, à des illusions d'optique, à toutes ces inventions qui font des panoramas, des dioramas, des navaloramas, des chefs-d'oeuvre sans pareils au point de vue de la représentation fidèle, exacte, parfaite du vrai réel et visible.

TÖPFFER, Menus propos, VII, 25.

(na-va-lo-ra-ma) m. s.
Perspective creating tool, which represents a sea view. In order to balance the imperfection of its special procedures, it relies on perspective devices, on light beams, optical illusions, and on all those inventions that turn panoramas, dioramas, navaloramas., into incomparable works of art as far as the faithful representation of the true reality as we see it is concerned.

TÖPFFER, Menus propos, VII, 25.